As you can see, the promotion maxes out at 55,000 bonus miles, which converts into a 27.5% transfer bonus for those transferring exactly 200,000 miles.

The bonus you earn is based on the cumulative miles generated, so not all the miles have to come from a single transfer partner. Registration is not required, and the bonus miles should post 7-10 days after eligible transactions are complete.

The eligible partners include all of Aeroplan’s hotel partners, which are as follows:

Transfers from other partners, including Amex Membership Rewards, don’t qualify for this promotion.

There are a couple of circumstances under which this could potentially represent a good value:

Convert Starpoints into Aeroplan miles

Starpoints convert into Aeroplan miles at a 1:1 ratio, and for every 20,000 points transferred you get 5,000 bonus miles. So if you transferred 160,000 Starpoints you’d usually get 200,000 Aeroplan miles, and then through this promotion you’d get a 55,000 mile bonus on top of that, for a total of 255,000 miles.

So that’s potentially like earning ~1.59 Aeroplan miles per Starpoint, which is pretty good.

Unfortunately in some ways this deal isn’t quite as good as in the past, given that Aeroplan devalued some of their best awards this past December. For example, roundtrip business class between the US and Europe now costs 110,000 miles rather than 90,000 miles. That’s still a pretty good deal, especially when you consider two stopovers are allowed on such an award. But it’s not quite as exceptional.

Earn Aeroplan miles with Marriott’s Flight and Hotel Packages

Through Hotel + Air packages you receive a set number of free nights plus a set number of miles as part of the package. These packages are in my opinion the best use of Marriott Rewards points to begin with, so the value only gets better when you add in a potential conversion bonus.

To put this into perspective, seven nights at a Category 1-5 property plus 100,000 miles will run you 250,000 Marriott Rewards points.

If you did that, you’d receive a total of 120,000 Aeroplan miles, plus seven nights at Category 1-5 properties.

But when you factor in the good value for converting partner points to Aeroplan, and then the current promotion on top of that, there are definitely circumstances under which it could make sense to take advantage of this promotion.

110,000 miles for roundtrip business class between the US and Europe is still a good deal assuming you can take advantage of the two stopovers (in addition to the destination), which is an extremely generous policy. Just make sure you fly on a carrier for which Aeroplan doesn’t impose fuel surcharges, like Brussels, SAS, Swiss, Turkish, and United.

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Comments

I collect Hhonors points but these only convert to Aeroplan at 10:1. So if I converted the 300,000 or so points I currently have, this would only give me about 30,000 Aeroplan miles, only about enough for a transcontinental North American flight award like Toronto to LAX in economy (and those are the cheap awards) including taxes and fees (Air Canada gives you the option of using Aeroplan points to pay the taxes and fees). This flight normally costs about US $450.00 – $500.00 to purchase online. However, for example I can use the same Hhonors points to stay 5 or 6 nights at a Hampton Inn or Hilton Garden Inn in NYC (how many points depends on the property) and save approximately $250.00 per night, making the hotel stay option worth up to 3 times as valuable as the Aeroplan award. So my Hhonors points stay put for the moment!

i wouldn’t say its better, but id say you could make a fair argument that United MileagePlus is a decent competitor to Aeroplan for said purposes: –no Amex transfers, but Chase UR transfers –no fuel surcharges charged by United when flying on many airlines for which Aeroplan DOES levy surcharges, but United charges 70k most of the year for those flights whereas Aeroplan charges 57.5k. each of the last couple years, United has had a “sale” during which it drops prices to 57.5k during off-peak months.

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